Prefixbox

Prefixbox is a leading AI-powered product search and discovery platform specifically designed for e-commerce businesses. Its comprehensive suite of tools aims to revolutionize the on-site shopping experience, making it easier for customers to find the products they want, which in turn drives sales and boosts key performance metrics. Trusted by major retailers like Carrefour, Leroy Merlin, and Bauhaus, Prefixbox has a proven track record of delivering substantial revenue growth, with some clients seeing increases of up to 45%.

The platform is built around three core AI-driven modules: AI Search, AI Navigation, and AI Recommend. Together, these tools create a seamless and intelligent product discovery journey for shoppers, from the moment they start typing in the search bar to their final purchase. Prefixbox is also natively available in the Shopify app store and is the first of its kind to earn the prestigious 'Built for Shopify' badge, ensuring a smooth and reliable integration for Shopify merchants.

How to use Prefixbox

Integrating Prefixbox into your e-commerce store is a straightforward process. For Shopify users, it's as simple as installing the Prefixbox app from the Shopify App Store. For other platforms or custom-built websites, Prefixbox offers a flexible API for a headless integration. Once installed, the setup involves:

1. Product Catalog Sync: Prefixbox automatically indexes your entire product catalog, with updates running as frequently as every 30 minutes or in real-time to ensure search results are always current.
2. Configuration & Customization: Through the Prefixbox dashboard, you can customize the look and feel of the search results and recommendation widgets to match your brand's design. You can also set up merchandising rules, such as creating promotional banners, boosting specific products, setting up page redirects for certain keywords, and managing a comprehensive list of synonyms to handle user typos and variations.
3. AI Optimization: The AI engine starts learning from user behavior immediately. It analyzes search queries, clicks, and purchases to continuously refine search relevance, personalize suggestions, and improve recommendations.
4. Monitoring and A/B Testing: The Insights & Experimentation Suite allows you to monitor performance through detailed analytics, measure search relevance, and run A/B tests on different configurations to find the most effective settings for maximizing conversions.

Core Features of Prefixbox

• AI Search: Features a powerful semantic search engine with Natural Language Processing (NLP) and vector search capabilities. It includes faceted search, customizable product tiles, and AI-powered re-ranking. The Rich Autocomplete provides instant suggestions for queries, products, categories, and brands, complete with preview images.
• AI Navigation: Enhances the user journey by suggesting related keywords, categories, and products within the autocomplete box and on the search engine results page (SERP), guiding customers to relevant items and improving discoverability.
• AI Recommend: Delivers various types of product recommendations, including personalized, complementary ('shop the look'), and visual recommendations. These can be placed on home, product, and cart pages to increase cross-sells and upsells.
• Merchandising & Optimization: Provides full control to merchandisers with tools for promotional banners, product promotions, redirects, and an advanced synonym manager.
• Personalization: The engine personalizes the entire search and discovery experience for each user based on their browsing history and behavior, leading to higher engagement and conversion rates.
• Insights & Experimentation Suite: Offers robust analytics with up to 2 years of history, A/B testing capabilities, an offline search relevance measurement tool, and a user feedback mechanism to continuously improve performance.

Use Cases for Prefixbox

Prefixbox is versatile and has delivered significant results across various e-commerce sectors:

• DIY & Home Improvement: Bauhaus Czechia boosted revenue by 45.3% and increased Average Order Value (AOV) by 28.4%. Another online DIY retailer reduced its 'zero result' search rate by 52%.
• Health and Beauty: Rossmann Hungary tripled its revenue from product recommendations and increased its overall conversion rate by 7% using relevant suggestions.
• Consumer Electronics: Euronics Hungary increased its transaction numbers by 13.4%, while Media Markt Hungary lifted mobile revenue by 11% with data-driven autocomplete.
• Fashion & Apparel: The 'shop the look' or complementary recommendations feature is ideal for suggesting full outfits, increasing the number of items per order.
• Specialty Retail (e.g., Hobbies, Books): Gunfire Poland increased revenue by 27.6% with an optimized semantic search engine, and Tania Ksiazka Poland reduced its zero-result search rate by 23%.

Advantages of Prefixbox

The primary advantage of Prefixbox is its proven ability to generate a significant return on investment. By optimizing the entire product discovery journey, it directly impacts the bottom line. Key benefits include a substantial increase in revenue and conversion rates, a higher average order value, and a dramatically improved customer experience. Its AI-powered personalization ensures that shoppers see the most relevant products, while the robust merchandising tools give retailers the control they need. The platform's ability to reduce zero-result searches means fewer lost customers and more completed transactions. For Shopify users, the 'Built for Shopify' badge guarantees a high-quality, seamless, and reliable integration.

Pricing and Plans

Prefixbox offers a transparent, value-based pricing model with a 14-day free trial available for all plans. The pricing is primarily based on the number of monthly API requests, where an action like a keystroke in the search bar or applying a filter counts as a request.

• Grow+ Plan: Designed for growing businesses, starting from €1,250/month for the AI Search module, covering 600,000-900,000 API requests.
• Enterprise Plan: A custom plan for large-scale retailers with over 900,000 monthly API requests. A custom quote is required.
• Add-ons: The AI Navigation and AI Recommend modules can be added to any plan for an additional €550/month each.
• AI Product Discovery Bundle: A discounted package that includes AI Search, Navigation, and Recommend. For the Grow+ tier, this bundle is priced at €2,115/month (a discount from the standard €2,350/month).

The platform is available for Shopify (both self-service and managed customer plans) and as a headless API for custom front-end integrations.